Burgstall stone

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Burgstall stone
Castle rock of the stone ruin

Castle rock of the stone ruin

Creation time : around 1100 to 1150
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall, remains of a tower, remains of a wall
Construction: Quarry stone and small ashlar masonry
Place: Fridingen on the Danube
Geographical location 48 ° 1 '2.5 "  N , 8 ° 56' 47.2"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 1 '2.5 "  N , 8 ° 56' 47.2"  E
Height: 755  m above sea level NN
Burgstall Stein (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Burgstall stone

The Stein Burgstall is an abandoned hilltop castle around 1000 meters southeast of the town church of Fridingen an der Donau in the Tuttlingen district in Baden-Württemberg .

Geographical location

The remains of the Spornburg rise to 755  m above sea level. NN height, and thus about 140 meters above the Danube valley ( 613  m above sea level ). It is located on a rock protruding from the valley slope in the immediate vicinity of the Stiegelesfels castle ruins and the eponymous ridge rock in the nature reserve there, as well as the Burgstallhöhle , a cave castle .

history

The construction of Stein Castle is dated to the period between 1100 and 1150 based on ceramic finds and the structural investigation of the still preserved keep . It was probably built as a successor to the earlier castle in the Burgstallhöhle. Due to a lack of written sources, nothing is known about their builders. The castle was abandoned in the second half of the 13th century.

Presumably, the abandoned castle fell to the Duchy of Austria in 1381, which then came under the control of Hohenberg . In 1409 Austria gave the castle stable as a Hohenburg fiefdom to Hans von Wildenfels. At that time it was said: "Hans von Wildenfels received on Saturday after St. Agnesentag at the burgstall called Stein, zu Fridingen and Kallenberg an der Tunaw, and ain hof there, at that time the Walch and Äckhern, Visen, Vischentzen and all affiliations" . This is also the first and at the same time the only mention of the castle, although it is by no means certain whether this was also the castle complex. Other lost and unnamed castle sites with a nearby farm are known in the area around Fridingen and Kallenberg Castle with the cave castles Ziegelhöhlenburg , the cave castle at Scheuerlehof, and the neighboring Burgstall cave, as well as the castle sites on the Rockenbusch and on the neighboring Stiegelesfels . The family seat of Hans von Wildenfels, the Burg Wildenfels, could not yet be located.

description

Rest of the western perimeter wall

Essentially, an impressive remnant of the western enclosure wall, around 32 meters long and up to six meters high, as well as the inner wall shell of the keep (interior: 3 by 2.5 meters and about 2.5 meters high) have been preserved of the castle . The approximately 20 by 60 meter large castle area on the castle rock was separated from the valley slope by a ten meter deep, horseshoe-shaped sole ditch . Outlines of a palas (about 12 by 9 meters) can still be seen. Roughly hewn corner cuboids have been preserved from its north-eastern outer corner.

Today the ruin is owned by the municipality of Fridingen.

literature

  • Christoph Bizer: Surface finds of castles in the Swabian Alb - A contribution to ceramic and castle research . Published by the regional council of Stuttgart - State Office for the Preservation of Monuments, Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-8062-2038-7 , pp. 295-298.
  • Günter Schmitt : Burgstall stone and Burgstall cave . In: Ders .: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb. Volume 3: Danube Valley. Hiking and discovering between Sigmaringen and Tuttlingen . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach an der Riß 1990, ISBN 3-924489-50-5 , pp. 253-257.
  • Christoph Bizer, Rolf Götz: Forgotten castles of the Swabian Alb . DRW-Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-87181-244-7 , p. 120.
  • Hans-Wilhelm Heine : Studies on weir systems between the young Danube and western Lake Constance . Published by the Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office, Stuttgart 1978, p. 67.

Web links

Commons : Burgstall Stein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Christoph Bizer: Surface finds of castles in the Swabian Alb - A contribution to ceramic and castle research , p. 296ff.
  2. ^ Günter Schmitt: Burgstall stone and Burgstall cave . In: Ders .: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb. Volume 3: Danube Valley. Hiking and discovering between Sigmaringen and Tuttlingen , p. 257